I second Mary's message. When we were house hunting we were willing to move further east but not north for the same reasons.
-India On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Mary Ebeling <[email protected]> wrote: > Thought I would share a comment about this that I posted on Madison.com > this morning. > > We recently moved back to Madison after a 4 year absence. We looked for > houses on the east side because we knew it had great transportation options > - transit, bike, pedestrian that function alongside automobiles. We > specifically did not look in the Sherman Avenue area because of the utter > lack of acceptable bike and pedestrian infrastructure. This multi-modal > access is part of what makes Madison such a vibrant city and I would > suggest is part of why the Sherman corridor has not shared in this vibrancy > to the extent neighborhoods with multi-modal transportation infrastructure > have. > > The traffic counts on Sherman make it a prime candidate for reducing the > number of lanes to one each direction and incorporating safety > improvements. Bicycle and pedestrians are already out there, and improving > their safety will improve the safety for all modes of travel. This fact has > been documented over and over again (if you want a cite, do a google > search). > > Businesses are often skeptical of these types of changes, but we also see > over an over that business activity increases when more consumers gain > access to their businesses (again google search). Not everyone drives, but > everyone needs to access services. Think about it. > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > -- WeAreAllMechanics.com [email protected] Stay connected- Follow WAAM on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/We.Are.All.Mechanics>
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